Re: [Exim] Using native gdbm

At 10:31 AM 12/4/01 +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
>> In particular ndbm emulation under gdbm does not work on FAT
>> partitions (Win95, 98 and Me). I have thus modified dbfn.h to
>> use native gdbm. It works (as far as test_dbfn can tell) and a
>> diff file is attached. Perhaps native gdbm support could be
>> made part of the standard distribution.
>
>It was my impression that gdbm was dying and that everybody is using
>Berkeley DB these days. Am I mistaken in this? Certainly very, very few
>Exim installations seem to use it. The gnu ftp site has two versions,
>
>gdbm-1.7.3.tar.gz. . . . . . . . Jul 14 1995
>gdbm-1.8.0.tar.gz. . . . . . . . May 19 1999
>
Cygwin is using 1.8.0
Many packages such as DB (and Exim !) have not yet been ported
to Cygwin...
Cygwin is coming with gdbm-1.8.0

>I will put your patch on the Exim 4 Wish List, but I won't be looking at
>that for quite some time now - till Exim 4 is properly released.

Thanks

Pierre